Young Researchers Network
The network gathers young researchers from different disciplines and institutions. We share the interest in the thematic focus of the Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies and conduct empirical research, among other things, on structural change in Central Germany and related social, economic, technological and ecological transformations. We do this from different disciplinary perspectives and maintain a cross-project, interdisciplinary exchange with the aim of drawing connections and challenging disciplinary perspectives. We organize workshops on varying issues and foster substantive and organizational exchange as we move through academic qualification levels.
Our network is open to all scholars who share our interests and wish to be involved.
Contact: Janine Hauer
Doctoral Student in Social Anthropology at Durham Arctic Interdisciplinary Research Centre, Universität Durham
Contact: eric.boyd@gu.se
Academic interests: extractivism, community displacement, resource materialities, critical heritage studies, hauntology
Researcher
University of Kassel
Department of Urban Renewal and Planning Theory
DFG project ‘Discussing Urban Mega Projects – Assessment, Arguments and Decisions’
Email: jakob.bussevoncolbe@asl.uni-kassel.de
Academic interests
Planning Theory, Multi-Level-Governance, Politics und Theories of Scale, Project-oriented Planning, Political Geographies, Practice Theories
Researcher and research coordinator, Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Contact: janine.hauer@ethnologie.uni-halle.de
Currently working on: research project “Catalyzing the transition: Tracing resource shifts in a Central German chemo-industrial complex” (WT)
PhD candidate, scholarship with state of Saxony-Anhalt 2021-2024
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
E-Mail: julia.kuehl@zirs.uni-halle.de
Currently working on: Research for doctoral project ‚More mobility for whom? Regional Politics and the making of sustainable futures in Central Germany‘
PhD student, Laboratoire LAVUE UMR 7218 CNRS, Université de Paris-Nanterre
Visiting Doctoral Student, Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Contact: q.legouy@parisnanterre.fr
Working on: Field research (2022) on the LEADER program in Saxony-Anhalt in the context of a comparative study: “Rural territories in local development: spatial justice and allocation of the European LEADER program. Paradigms of actors and dynamics in the Centre Val de Loire, France, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany and Moldavia, Romania regions.”
PhD Student, funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation, Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
E-Mail: anne.mueller@geo.uni-halle.de
Currently working on: Dissertation on Packaging in daily food consumption
Researcher, lecturer and post-doc Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Human Geography Department
Researcher and Coordinator Institute for Just Transition and Sustainability, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Contact: mareike.pampus@geo.uni-halle.de
mareike.pampus@strukturwandel.uni-halle.de
Currently working on: research project “The Making of Nature: Land Restoration of Postmining Areas in Eastern Germany”
PhD Student, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
Visiting PhD student, Cenre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg
Contact: friederike.pank@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Currently working on: Fieldwork (2022-2023) on the post-coal transformation in Lusatia within the framework of the ERC-funded project EMPTINESS – Living Capitalism After (Post)Socialism
Lecturer and researcher, Universitas Indonesia, Department of Geography Faculty
Contact: nurul.sr@ui.ac.id
Currently working on: research project (2022) “Science Policy Interface: Implementation of Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Tsunami Ready within the framework of the United Nation Decade of Ocean Science 2021-2030 in Indonesia”
Contact: felix.schiedlowski@ethnologie.uni-halle.de
Currently working on: doctoral thesis “A world full of gaps: Phasing-down coal and the hunt for a post-fossil society in Eastern Germany” (WT)
